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the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

The purpose of science was to revive and cultivate a perpetual state of wonder. For nothing deserved wonder so much as our capacity to feel it.

Down one branch, she lifts the glass to her lips, toasts the room—To Tachigali versicolor—and drinks.

But the senses never have much chance, against the power of doctrine. "Well," the man on the ground says, "I'm sticking it to the old bastard now!

He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America.

It surprises Adam, the proximity of coziness to terror.

His face clouds over with incomprehension. You would know. You'd know, if you saw a pike.

Beliefs should not be considered delusional if they are in keeping with societal norms.

In fact, it's Douggie's growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

In the creature's howling, Els heard the roots of music—the holy society of small discord.

fact, it's Douggie's growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

His personality is being wiped away by brain damage. This is called depersonalization, in which the liveliness and details of character seem to vanish.

Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.

I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi . . . when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.

another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation—from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war.

United States crude oil production continued at the 1920 rate of about 443 million barrels, Hibbert cautioned, the domestic supply would be exhausted by 1933.

sufficiently to produce worldwide agricultural collapse.

More than any other development, Chadwick's neutron made practical the detailed examination of the nucleus.

Chamberlain moved again to concession. "Appeasement" was at that time a popular and not a pejorative word.

If you accept a punitive notion of God, who punishes or even eternally tortures those who do not love him, then you have an absurd universe where most people on this earth end up being more loving than God!

Remember, it is not the brand name that matters. It is that God's heart be made available and active on this earth.

God's grace cannot be a random problem solver doled out to the few and the virtuous—or it is hardly grace at all!

Mere obedience is far too often a detour around actual love. Obedience is usually about cleaning up, love is about waking up.

For Paul, Christ is "that mystery which for endless ages has been kept secret" (Romans 16:25–27). And a well-kept secret it still remains for most Christians.